The Port Arthur News
PORT ARTHUR; TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1942.
GREAT TANK BATTLE RAGES IN DESERT
INFANTRY
OPENS NEW
WEDGE IN
AXIS LINE
MANY PRISONERS TAKEN
Axis Force Still Hemmed In
By Australian Troops
LONDON, Nov. S (AP).—Reuters
recorded a German radio broadcast
today saying that the British
have "thrown In some 500
tanks in the greatest tank battle
of the whole African campaign.'
CAIRO, Nov. 3 (AP),—British Infantry
has knifed 16 miles deep
nto the Axis defense zone at Tel-
El Akaklr, representing a gain of
several miles of 'slashing forward
under their own artillery barrage
Just before a mighty tank battle
developed, late late dispatches from th«
front said.
Grozny Oil Fields
Menaced By Nazis
Numerically Superior Forces Push Past Nalchik;
Reds Deal Heavy Blows At Stalingrad
By Henry Shapiro
MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (UP).—Numerically superior German
forces, advancing steadily southeast of Nalchik, threatened
both Ordzhonikidze, gateway to the rich southern Caucasus
and the railroad leading to the
Grozny oil fields today.
Reports from the front said that
he Germans delivered 10 successive
attacks against one Russian
position southeast of Nalchik, sup-
lorted by more than 300 sorties by
the Nazi air force.
Force Nails Back
RETURNING
ADMIRAL
TELLS OF
VICTORIES
Knox Warns Public Against
Over-0ptimism
NIPS 'WILL COMEBACK'
Only One Cruiser Claimed In
Earlier Reports
By Joseph A. Bors
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3
--(INS)—Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox reported today
that two additional Japanese
cruisers and one destroyer
probably were sunk in the nigh
naval battle on Oct. 11-12, but af
the same time warned against un-
due optimism '"due to our signal
success in the first round" of the
current Solomons battle.
At his weekly press conference
Knox told newspapermen that in
a discussion with Vice Admiral
Robert L. Ghormley, former com-
mander of American forces in the
Solomons, the admiral revealed
that a total of five destroyers and
three enemy cruisers probably were
sunk by American naval units off
Savo Island.
Navy Conservatism Cited
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